1 minute videos aren't put into the shorts interface, so it's not YouTube noticing that you disabled shorts but rather some YouTuber trying to follow the algorithm using a channel they made for shorts and mistakenly (I assume) uploading a video longer than minute on it. All such videos appear as normal videos instead of as shorts.
Google is terrible though, so I understand why you would think that.
They're probably talking about their experience on their hardware, we don't know what machine or what version of Firefox they're talking about. (It's possible it's a really old version and not really relevant now or it's possible their experience is valid for their hardware)
An aside here: but why is it that people from major cities aren't considered average? In many cases major cities are major because they have a lot higher density of people leading to more development and resources.
I don't live in a car-dependent location, so forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't renting a petro car for those few times a year be cheaper and better for the environment to boot?
Does anyone here know any sources to find good iOS apps? Idk where else to ask, and this seemed the most relevant.